Water use by play

April 5, 2014

Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle

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8. Piceance Basin
Total water use: 4.4 billion gallons
Average water per well: 2.6 million gallons
Number of wells: 1,697
[Photo: Terry Cutright, a plant operator at the Enterprise Products Operating L.P. Meeker Gas Plant, walks past the plant that sits in the heart of the Piceance Basin on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.]

Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle

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8. Piceance Basin
Total water use: 4.4 billion gallons
Average water per well: 2.6 million gallons
Number of wells: 1,697
[Photo: Terry Cutright, a plant operator at the Enterprise Products Operating L.P. Meeker Gas Plant, walks past the plant that sits in the heart of the Piceance Basin on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.]